# Rooghan, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathreagh, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ruachán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 693,658 m² (69.37 ha, 171.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,951 m² (3 ha, 7.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathreagh, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/rathreagh.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Kilfian East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 242 people lived in 89 households in the Kilfian East electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34459 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152798 - Centre: latitude 54.217481, longitude -9.32376 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooghan, from 149 m² to 173,244 m² (17.32 ha, 42.81 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5252061: 173,244 m² (17.32 ha, 42.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5252061.md - Parcel 5910714: 85,535 m² (8.55 ha, 21.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5910714.md - Parcel 3464972: 79,165 m² (7.92 ha, 19.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3464972.md - Parcel 894672: 72,720 m² (7.27 ha, 17.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894672.md - Parcel 930420: 66,574 m² (6.66 ha, 16.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930420.md - Parcel 886529: 60,355 m² (6.04 ha, 14.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886529.md - Parcel 961895: 39,218 m² (3.92 ha, 9.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/961895.md - Parcel 927936: 37,985 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/927936.md - Parcel 880403: 29,951 m² (3 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880403.md - Parcel 884431: 28,786 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884431.md - Parcel 924739: 5,371 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924739.md - Parcel 904035: 4,021 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904035.md - Parcel 5910712: 3,544 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5910712.md - Parcel 5245564: 3,338 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245564.md - Parcel 949621: 2,576 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949621.md - Parcel 980799: 641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/980799.md - Parcel 4772963: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4772963.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rooghan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Rooghan in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rooghan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA014-076: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA014-076----. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 2 January 2012 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rooghan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rooghan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rooghan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rooghan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rooghan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rooghan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rooghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Atticloghy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/atticloghy.md - Ballybeg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballybeg-150179.md - Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowkeel-150667.md - Farmhill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/farmhill-151699.md - Kincon: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kincon-152107.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rooghan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/rooghan